Saturday, December 8, 2007

Relaxing

I can finally start to relax. All the papers that I need to turn in have been turned in. I just washed all of my dishes. I still kinda need to clean my room.
My problem now is that I'm not very excited about anything I'm knitting. In all three of my projects I'm at the point where I'm just repeating the same thing over and over again until whatever it is gets long enough. I absolutely refuse to start another project until I have finished at least two of these. Unless I need to start my brother's Christmas present.
I just hate feeling like I'm not getting anywhere with any of these, and the fact that there are three of them just makes it less likely that I'll move very quickly along with any of them. I like finishing things, but it's hard to get myself to sit down for any prolonged period of time to knit when the prospect of what I am knitting is so boring. Luckily my hatred of unfinished objects, my minimal stash, and financial situation (i.e. poor and cheap) all combine to keep me from casting on anything else else.
We'll have to see what happens when I am completely out of school for the semester.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Snow!


The first snow of the season is falling! And it's sticking much better than the newsmen predicted.
I haven't had much knitting time, I have a math paper to write, but the end is near! In less than two weeks I'll be at home and knitting my fingers off.
But for now, my math paper is calling...

Saturday, December 1, 2007

FAIL!

I think I've failed so far in my blogging experience. I have been so wrapped up in schoolwork (and the minor mental breakdowns that come along with it this time of year) that I have completely neglected my blog.
I finished the Syrian Shoulder Shawl, and my tea cozy. I'm stretching myself too far with a lace scarf, a smoke ring, and a cabled scarf for my grandmother. I can't remember every having so many projects going at once. I think it kind of reflects my current inward state. I'm all over the place. Hopefully I'll get back here more often.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Never enough time

I'm very frustrated now that I'm back at school. Over the summer, even with my internship, I was putting in a solid two hours of knitting a day. Now, I'm lucky if I sit down for a half hour. The only times I get much done at all is when I go to our Stitch 'n' Bitch on Wednesdays.
I'm sometimes overcome with the desire to blow off all my homework and my classes and just knit for a few days straight, but I'm really too much of a goody two shoes for that.
In the past week gotten the edging around the second corner on the Syrian Shoulder Shawl. I'm looking forward to finishing this, I want to start a new lace project, but I'm not allowed until I finish this one. I have to be very bossy with myself when it comes to starting new projects. If I just started projects as the ideas came to me, I'd be bankrupt and frustrated because I'd never finish a thing. But I'm just about to round the third corner, so the end is in sight.
Soon my dear friend Kristina will be taking pictures of my knitting. I am very pleased about this because I need pictures for my projects on Ravelry (which by the way is so insanely cool I just can't stand it), and not only does Kristina have a real camera, she's also a really bitchin' amateur photographer!

Friday, September 21, 2007

It's finally happened...

It's finally happened. After reading so many great blogs by other knitters out there, and just never being able to talk about my knitting enough, I'm starting my own wee blog. I used to have a personal blog that I wrote in very frequently, but I grew up and my desire to air all of my personal problems on the internet waned.
But now I want to talk about knitting.
I have two projects on the needles now, the Syrian Shoulder Shawl from Victorian Lace Today and a tea-cozy that I'm making up as I go along.
I'm actually very excited about my little tea-cozy. I've only ever knitted from patterns before, so I'm all jazzed that I'm actually making something up right out of my own head. I've been wanting to knit a tea-cozy because I drink tea like it is my job as long as the ambient temperature is below 75, and I like my tea burning hot. I've seen patterns for other tea-cozies, but none of them really caught my fancy. Then once day in class I had a neat idea, so I've been fooling around with it since.
There will be more to come, but for now, it's Friday, so I'm off to do some leisure knitting.